Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

Observing the planets is ... the night sky—and there’s no better way to view them than in a planetary alignment. This is where multiple planets line up next to each other.

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

will aim to understand whether the same process could allow microscopic life to thrive beneath oceans that are on other planets and moons. "If there's oxygen," said Prof Sweetman, "there could be ...

NASA/Preston Dyches Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction, meaning they'll appear closest to each other ... distant ice giant planets out in our solar system, are also there in the sky ...

This works with any area of science, or indeed human life. In a way ... as the bizarre life of Kiln, the planet on which the book is set. It is just that there are fewer steps between the now ...

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so that'd likely be the case on other worlds if the life that exists there is similar to life as we know it. "These arid, dry planets, with significantly less than one Earth's ocean of water may ...